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Tour du Thabor – Etape 3 – Du Refuge du Thabor aux Granges de la Vallée Etroite

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A wild route, bathed in lakes and scree, awaits you. Linking the Maurienne Valley, the Haut Val de Suze and the Clarée, this ancestral passageway promises you sumptuous panoramas.

DAY 3: From the Thabor refuge (2502 m) – The granges of the Vallée Etroite (1765 m) with ascent of Mont Thabor (3178 m)
Duration: 7 hours / Elevation difference: + 676 m / – 1700 m

At dawn, because the heat is strong on Mt Tabor, you will have to descend a few minutes to go to the pass of the narrow Valley to take the path that climbs to the top of Tabor. From the Col des Méandes the Way of the Cross begins to bring you to the chapel which is just under the summit.
From the summit, you have to retrace your steps to the Col des Méandes, to then dive into the Vallée Etroite. You will have 1h30 of descent left to taste an Italian specialty in one of the two refuges of the narrow Valley (Refuge Terzo Alpini or Refuge I Re Magi).

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3/ DAY 3: From the Thabor refuge (2502 m) – The granges of the Vallée Etroite (1765 m) with ascent of Mont Thabor (3178 m)
Duration: 7 hours / Elevation difference: + 676 m / – 1700 m

At dawn, because the heat is strong on Mt Tabor, you will have to descend a few minutes to go to the pass of the narrow Valley to take the path that climbs to the top of Tabor. From the Col des Méandes the Way of the Cross begins to bring you to the chapel which is just under the summit.
From the summit, you have to retrace your steps to the Col des Méandes, to then dive into the Vallée Etroite. You will have 1h30 of descent left to taste an Italian specialty in one of the two refuges of the narrow Valley (Refuge Terzo Alpini or Refuge I Re Magi).

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Location details

IGN 3535 OT Névache Mont Thabor – Topoguide “Around Thabor”
Car access and parking
From the A43, exit at Saint-Michel-Valloire, then go up towards Valloire
(D902), then Valmeinier 1 (D500A). Go to the Chef Lieu and 215 m
on the left after the Tavern, follow “la ville Dessus” and park.